Ten years ago, Mamma Mia! arrived on the big screen with Meryl Streep and the band's greatest hits.
The Movie Slut wasn't impressed. Sure, the music rocked, but Streep, who was on the off ramp to 60 at the time, looked ridiculous in overalls and even her acting talents couldn't pull off a 17-year-old Dancing Queen.
This prequel-sequel cast Lily James as young Donna (Streep's character) in flashbacks, and Amanda Seyfried as her now grown-up daughter. Streep is on hand for one song. And Cher makes a cameo as glama.
It all works. The songs might not be Abba's greatest hits (though we do hear at least two of them), but the band's second-tier will make you wish you'd paid more attention to them in the 1970s.
Looking for an escape from all that's wrong with our country this summer? Here it is.
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